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Cyclist with earphones vs driver with radio on

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  • #62
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,128 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    check_six wrote: »
    I open the windows on my car when turning out of blind tricky side roads so I can hear things coming
    How do you hear bicycles? It's much more important to see dangers.


  • #63
    el tel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,991 ✭✭✭el tel


    Top tier professional road racers would have you believe that earphones are actually essential for rider safety. They get very upset at the potential dangers of riding without earphones :p


  • #64
    BostonB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,053 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    I don't use earphones on the bike. But if there's any wind (or you going fast) its can be quite hard to hear things behind you. You might hear a car or another bike (usually a gear change) but only when its right behind you. For general situational awareness, its overstated in this thread.


  • #65
    jimmycrackcorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,358 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    Cycling with earphones on doesn't seem to affect traffic cutting out on you from side roads.


  • #66
    check_six
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,245 ✭✭✭check_six


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    How do you hear bicycles? It's much more important to see dangers.

    My peepers usually reveal their presence. Even in the dark. Don't need to hear them as well.


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  • #67
    Mechanic365
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 481 ✭✭Mechanic365


    Ive been driving machinery and riding bikes since I was 9 and lately ive realised how unrelaxed and terrified most people are on bikes. When im on a bike im very relaxed but ive discovered its because of past expierience with large machinery. I look at a bike as one of the safer ways to travel once you have a brain!

    I ALWAYS cycle with earphones at almost full blast and never once thought about the traffic because i always seem to know when traffic come behind, its also a sense thing and not just hearing. i cycle mostly country roads and always found that the cyclist has control as long as you are also forgiving, pulling in at smooth areas letting off trafic and directing them ahead at blind bends.
    Buy if i enter heavy traffic i use the button on my headphones to pause the tunes for minute because im always weary of horns blowing.


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